“To limit price increases in the short term and to help the most vulnerable, poorest families in particular, we have allocated 1,2 billion euros in June and over 3 billion in September. We are ready to intervene again and again with particular attention to the weakest groups". The said it Prime Minister Mario Draghi during the event Work and Energy for a sustainable transition involving trade unions and Confindustria. And thus opens up the possibility of new interventions on the issue of high bills, also at the center of the many proposals to amend the Budget maneuver.
Then, Draghi also recalled that the Pnrr "assigns almost 40% of the funds to reforms and investments to promote the ecological transition". And that this plan "binds the appropriations to the achievement of precise results with defined deadlines for the next 5 years". "We have asked the European Commission to study medium-term solutions, for example, on the subject of storage to limit price fluctuations and limit the risks for businesses and citizens", added the premier.
With regard to the ecological transition, Draghi stressed the "existential importance" for everyone, not only as individuals but also for us as a country. "It is very important that for essential challenges for Italy and the future everyone really finds a way to get along".
" fight against climate change, together with the fight against the pandemic, is the most important challenge of our times - said Draghi -. It is for those who govern, it is for those who work and for those who do business. For this reason, the ecological transition "will require radical transformations, in technologies, in consumption habits, and to be successful it must also be sustainable from a social and economic point of view". And the state “will play a central role in managing these changes. The more essential the challenges are, the more the state is called into question”, added the Prime Minister.
However, we need to think of the ecological transition not only as a "danger" but also as an "opportunity" and Italy must know how to seize them. “We must aim to enter the most innovative segments of the market such as battery production, create new ones in response to the needs that will emerge from businesses and consumers, develop and adopt cutting-edge technologies that are not yet fully exploited. This is the most important road that will come before us over the years”.
In this framework, the public sector "will have to take charge of the weakest citizens but also to guide them in this transition, but also to ensure that the transition times are rapid and above all compatible with the conversion capacity of companies".
As for the green transition, Europe wants to lead it, "but it cannot do it alone". “The European Union – underlined the premier – is responsible for just 8% of global emissions, half of the United States and about a quarter of China. How quickly countries will reach the climate neutrality it won't be the same for everyone. It must take into account the industrial context and stage of development. However, it is important that the starting point is the same, and that it is today”.
